Permaculture Blog

Wow! What a great SierraClub outing.
Just one group from a colony of about 5,000 bats heading out for the evening bug meal.

Very cool
PuraVidaAquatic.com

Given that I am such a fan of dragonfly and dragonfly larvae I have a interesting YouTube for you.☺

https://youtu.be/7QMcXEj7IT0 PuraVidaAquatic.com

Since 2010, California officials have sprayed more than 14,000 gallons of Roundup onto invasive weeds in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, which supplies drinking water to more than 25 million people.

Source: California says this chemical causes cancer. So why is it being sprayed into drinking water?

14
Thousand gal.
Oh my.

See the BLOG page for my detailed coverage of the current trial. CURRENT CASE: The Johnson case is Case Number: CGC16550128 Title: DEWAYNE JOHNSON VS. MONSANTO COMPANY ET AL Cause of Action: PRODUCTS LIABILITY The Johnson case holds promise of serving as a bellwether for the thousands of similar cases filed by plaintiffs who claim that exposure to Roundup […]

Source: In Court – Glyphosate Girl

If you are interested in the trial itself, this is an informative website.

At least half the cans, bottles, plastics and paper collected for recycling used to end up in one place — China. Now China has decided to stop accepting most of the recycled materials that it once purchased. And that decision is having huge ripple effects on recycling programs in Richmond, as well as other communities in this country and overseas.

Source: China’s new policy threatening recycling in U.S.

Oh my! We will start dumping them in the ocean again.

Scientists have recovered years of hidden temperature data from the NASA moon landings in the 1970s. They think there’s only one possible explanation for a warming shift in surface temperatures on the moon: human footprints.

Source: A 40-year-old mystery about rising temperatures on the moon has been solved — and it was probably the Apollo astronauts’ fault

Hmmmmmmm you don’t think that it has anything to do with the Sun going through normal sun cycles with variations in output do you?

In 1973, a toxic chemical was mixed into tons of farm feed, sickening livestock and exposing millions of Michiganders. Should later generations worry?

Source: Uncertain Inheritance: Epigenetics and the Poisoning of Michigan

Wow I had no idea.

Apocalypse Never illuminates why we must abolish nuclear weapons, how we can, and what the world will look like after we do. The twenty-first century has ushered in a world at the atomic edge. The…READ MORE

Source: Apocalypse Never by Tad Daley – Rutgers University Press

Permaculture is about living with the world. Blowing it up is about the most non-permaculture action I can imagine :-). All permaculturists should work at how to not blow up the world!

Source: Bokashi – Chemical Analysis and Biology

Pretty good bokashi blog. So many that I look at have so many significant scientific flaws that I am wary of how valid any of their points are.

But this one is pretty good. And I like the caveats that he uses very carefully at times to simplify complex microbial ideas.

Best to all.
Bob

😁